POST lookup/symbol/:species/:symbol

{ "symbols" : ["BRCA2", "BRAF" ] }
 

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Tiny;
my $http = HTTP::Tiny->new();
my $server = 'http://rest.ensembl.org';
my $ext = '/lookup/symbol/homo_sapiens';
my $response = $http->request('POST', $server.$ext, {
 headers => { 
 	'Content-type' => 'application/json',
 	'Accept' => 'application/json'
 },
 content => '{ "symbols" : ["BRCA2", "BRAF" ] }'
});
die "Failed!\n" unless $response->{success};
use JSON;
use Data::Dumper;
if(length $response->{content}) {
 my $hash = decode_json($response->{content});
 local $Data::Dumper::Terse = 1;
 local $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
 print Dumper $hash;
 print "\n";
}

import requests, sys
server = "http://rest.ensembl.org"
ext = "/lookup/symbol/homo_sapiens"
headers={ "Content-Type" : "application/json", "Accept" : "application/json"}
r = requests.post(server+ext, headers=headers, data='{ "symbols" : ["BRCA2", "BRAF" ] }')
if not r.ok:
 r.raise_for_status()
 sys.exit()
decoded = r.json()
print repr(decoded)

import requests, sys
server = "http://rest.ensembl.org"
ext = "/lookup/symbol/homo_sapiens"
headers={ "Content-Type" : "application/json", "Accept" : "application/json"}
r = requests.post(server+ext, headers=headers, data='{ "symbols" : ["BRCA2", "BRAF" ] }')
if not r.ok:
 r.raise_for_status()
 sys.exit()
decoded = r.json()
print(repr(decoded))

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
server='http://rest.ensembl.org'
path = '/lookup/symbol/homo_sapiens'
url = URI.parse(server)
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(path, {'Content-Type' => 'application/json', 'Accept' => 'application/json'})
request.body = '{ "symbols" : ["BRCA2", "BRAF" ] }'
response = http.request(request)
if response.code != "200"
 puts "Invalid response: #{response.code}"
 puts response.body
 exit
end
require 'rubygems'
require 'json'
require 'yaml'
result = JSON.parse(response.body)
puts YAML::dump(result)

import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
public class EnsemblRest {
 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 String server = "http://rest.ensembl.org";
 String ext = "/lookup/symbol/homo_sapiens";
 URL url = new URL(server + ext);
 URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
 HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection)connection;
 
 String postBody = "{ \"symbols\" : [\"BRCA2\", \"BRAF\" ] }";
 httpConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
 httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
 httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
 httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", Integer.toString(postBody.getBytes().length));
 httpConnection.setUseCaches(false);
 httpConnection.setDoInput(true);
 httpConnection.setDoOutput(true);
 DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(httpConnection.getOutputStream());
 wr.writeBytes(postBody);
 wr.flush();
 wr.close();
 
 InputStream response = connection.getInputStream();
 int responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();
 if(responseCode != 200) {
 throw new RuntimeException("Response code was not 200. Detected response was "+responseCode);
 }
 String output;
 Reader reader = null;
 try {
 reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response, "UTF-8"));
 StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
 char[] buffer = new char[8192];
 int read;
 while ((read = reader.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) > 0) {
 builder.append(buffer, 0, read);
 }
 output = builder.toString();
 } 
 finally {
 if (reader != null) try {
 reader.close(); 
 } catch (IOException logOrIgnore) {
 logOrIgnore.printStackTrace();
 }
 }
 System.out.println(output);
 }
}

library(httr)
library(jsonlite)
library(xml2)
server <- "http://rest.ensembl.org"
ext <- "/lookup/symbol/homo_sapiens"
r <- POST(paste(server, ext, sep = ""), content_type("application/json"), accept("application/json"), body = '{ "symbols" : ["BRCA2", "BRAF" ] }')
stop_for_status(r)
# use this if you get a simple nested list back, otherwise inspect its structure
# head(data.frame(t(sapply(content(r),c))))
head(fromJSON(toJSON(content(r))))

curl 'http://rest.ensembl.org/lookup/symbol/homo_sapiens' -H 'Content-type:application/json' \
-H 'Accept:application/json' -X POST -d '{ "symbols" : ["BRCA2", "BRAF" ] }'

wget -q --header='Content-type:application/json' --header='Accept:application/json' \
--post-data='{ "symbols" : ["BRCA2", "BRAF" ] }' \
'http://rest.ensembl.org/lookup/symbol/homo_sapiens' -O -